Cross-Currents: East Asian History and Culture Review
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June 2016 e-Journal (No. 19) – Special Issue on Kham, Tibet
Articles
Introduction to “Frontier Tibet: Trade and Boundaries of Authority in Kham”
Stéphane Gros, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique
“To Control Tibet, First Pacify Kham”: Trade Routes and “Official Routes” (Guandao) in Easternmost Kham
Patrick Booz, Pennsylvania State University
Construction Work and Wages at the Dergé Printing House in the Eighteenth Century
Rémi Chaix, École Pratique des Hautes Études
Guozhang Trading Houses and Tibetan Middlemen in Dartsedo, the “Shanghai of Tibet”
Yudru Tsomu, Sichuan University
Victorianizing Guangxu: Arresting Flows, Minting Coins, and Exerting Authority in Early Twentieth-Century Kham
Scott Relyea, Appalachian State University
Tricks of the Trade: Debt and Imposed Sovereignty in Southernmost Kham in the Nineteenth to Twentieth Centuries
Stéphane Gros, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique
Memory Politics at Work in a Gyalrong Revolt in the Early Twentieth Century
Jinba Tenzin, National University of Singapore
Afterword: Why Kham? Why Borderlands? Coordinating New Research Programs for Asia
C. Patterson Giersch, Wellesley College
Review Essays
A Soundtrack to Mongolian History
Franck Billé, University of California, Berkeley
Lucy M. Rees, Mongolian Film Music: Tradition, Revolution and Propaganda. London: Routledge, 2015. 210 pp. $110 (cloth).
Alternative Modernities for Colonial Korea
Steven Lee, University of California, Berkeley
Sunyoung Park, The Proletarian Wave: Literature and Leftist Culture in Colonial Korea, 1910–1945. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Asia Center, 2015. 348 pp. $50 (cloth).
Vladimir Tikhonov, Modern Korea and Its Others: Perceptions of the Neighbouring Countries and Korean Modernity. London: Routledge, 2016. 218 pp. $160 (cloth).
Whither Confucian Family Values? New Research on Marriage, Trafficking, and the Things People Do to Survive
Janet M. Theiss, University of Utah
Matthew Sommer, Polyandry and Wife-Selling in Qing Dynasty China. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2015. 499 pp. $80 (cloth/ebook).
Zhao Ma, Runaway Wives, Urban Crimes, and Survival Tactics in Wartime Beijing, 1937–1949. Cambridge, MA: Harvard East Asia Monographs, Harvard University Press, 2015. 380 pp. $50 (cloth).
Photo Essay
Mong La: Business as Usual in the China-Myanmar Borderlands
Curated by Alessandro Rippa and Martin Saxer (Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich)
Readings from Asia
A Genealogical Interrogation of Prussian Neoclassical “Tectonics” in East Asia
Hoi-eun Kim, Texas A&M University
Chun Jin-sung 전진성. Sangsang ŭi At’ene, Perŭllin-Tok’yo-Sŏul 상상의 아테네, 베를린-도쿄-서울: 기억과 건축이 빚어낸 불협 화음의 문화사 [Imaginary Athens, Berlin-Tokyo-Seoul]. Seoul: Ch’ŏnnyŏnŭisangsang, 2015. ISBN: 9791185811086.
History Reviving the Erased Voice of the Vanished
Ki Hoon Lee, Yonsei University
Jung Byung-joon. Hyŏn aellisŭ wa kŭ ŭi sidae: Yŏksa e hwipssŭllyŏgan pigŭk ŭi kyŏnggyein 현앨리스와 그의 시대: 역사에 휩쓸려간 비극의 경계인 [Alice Hyun and her days: The tragic marginal one swept away by history]. Seoul: Dolbegae, 2015. ISBN: 978-89-7199-651-5.
Submitted by:
Keila Diehl, Ph.D.
Managing Editor
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